What is it with shipping hard drives?

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Robert M wrote:
Mavic,

The item is considered packed loose when said item is placed without additional padding and/or shock absorbing material in a large box. Packaging material around an item isn't necessarily going to protect it properly since said item can bounce and jounce freely within the larger shipping container.

Robert

What matters is there's something around the object has padding around it. If there's padding, a gap, then a box... it's not much different than the same amount of padding, directly against a box. It will bounce around in the box just as much as it would have bounced around without a box.